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The need for an agent is certainly a turn off. Especially since it seems that many of the values the agent allows you to retreive are available through SNMP (CPU utilization, Network Utilization, Disk Space) while I understand others are not (service status).

The lack of a robust Web interface and a W32 only management console is also a downside. Though, I am happy with the speed of the client server model as opposed to an AJAX GUI.

The ability to easily visualize the chain of events is nice. The alarm features in OpenNMS for example are cumbersome.

I will continue to work with it in my spare time as well as OpenNMS. I hope to reach a conclusion by July and purchase a support agreement with whomever I choose.

Everything is starting to make more sense now and you already answered my next question about the variables when a threshold is false, I didn't remember seeing that in the manual (I'm guessing I just missed it).

Thanks for the quick response.

I am currently evaluating network management solutions to implement. I have currently installed and configures HypericHQ, OpenNMS, (and the two aforementioned integrated with one another), Zabbix and ZenOSS. I actually on stumbled upon NetXMS while looking for how to do something in OpenNMS.

Thanks

Couple more questions

in Rule 1 there is "SERVICE_PROBLEM_%i_%5" but in Rule 2 that can clear the alarm generated by Rule 1 it is "SERVICE_PROBLEM_%i_%3"

What are the %5 and %3 doing? Why are they different?

In the built-in event processing, for example service down and the event that clears it both end in %i_%1.

I understand %i is the unique ID of the event, so isn't that all that is really needed?

I guess for the most part, if it's not "started" then an alert should be generated.

Let's say I did want the detailed monitoring capability, and I create events for the different conditions...what would be appropriate to set the "when false" to

So lets say I have "when equal to 2" Generates event COP_SERVICE_STARTING

What would false be, COP_SERVICE_UNKNOWN?

But then it would report unknown for 0, which means started?

Are all of the thresholds evaluated (I know there's a check box, but I didn't really understand what it changed) and the one that matches best triggered?

I am making this difficult aren't I?

The only reason I ask is because some of the VMware Services on the Virtual Infrastructure Server I have had trouble with getting stuck in "Starting" and I would like to see that logged.

How would I create alarms for a monitored service?

If I use "get" with the ServiceState, I get back 0...which means running.

So I create a threshold that says when not equal to 0.

That's all good, when it's true it triggers an event I created COP_SERVICE_DOWN. But actually I guess it  would be better to say "unknown" instead of down, as if 1 was returned it would actually be paused and not down.

Recommendations?